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Lydda

British  
/ ˈlɪdə /

noun

  1. another name for Lod

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Nasr Saba, who lives in Laguna Hills but was born in 1938 in Lydda — now part of Israel and called Lod — says he is “older than Israel.”

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 13, 2023

But he also took part in the expulsion of some fifty thousand Palestinian residents from the towns of Lydda and Ramle, situated between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.

From The New Yorker Oct. 26, 2015

As Shavit, especially, describes it, with a lot of new research, the attack on Lydda was part of a purposeful strategy of Arab removal, approved at the highest levels.

From Slate Feb. 13, 2015

At the airport at Lydda, a chubby man in dark glasses stepped out of the plane just in from Amsterdam.

From Time Magazine Archive

"And all who dwelt at Lydda and Saron saw him and turned to the Lord."

From The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 12, December, 1880 by Walker, Aaron

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